Albert Fox CahnšŸ¦Š (@foxcahn@BSky.Social) Profile picture
@STOPSpyingNY founder; @CarrCenter @yaleisp, @ashoka, & @TEDTalks fellow; 100+ bylines in NYTimes, Guardian, Wired, etc. Was @WeilGotshal & @Harvard_Law. He/him
Apr 26, 2022 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
(1) #ElonMusk isnā€™t just buying #twitter, heā€™s buying every DM, private tweet, and bit of metadata it has, and Iā€™m terrified what that means for society. As a private company loosely governed by a vague privacy policy, heā€™ll have free reign over unfathomable data. #twittersold (2) People are rightfully fearful of what Muskā€™s acquisition means for content moderation and the return of abusive figures like Trump. But Iā€™m just as worried about what he will do with this disturbing trove of our most intimate moments. #TwitterTakeover
Nov 18, 2020 ā€¢ 12 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
I'm tired, I need some downtime, but drafting this ethics complaint against #RudyGiuliani may just be the most cathartic paperwork I've ever filled out. Who knows if it will do any good, but we have to try. Dear Members of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee:

On November 11th, 2020, at approximately 1:30 PM ET, I witnessed the above-referenced Rudolph (ā€œRudyā€) William Louis Giuliani appear before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania...
Nov 17, 2020 ā€¢ 20 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
#Pennsylvania oral arguments in the Trump Election litigation are beginning! And Rudy Guliani is being asked to confirm his bar membership. Will do a blow-by-blow
#Election2020results Judge is warning counsel to take turns speaking and providing other logistical details. Also going over the revisions to the complaint and the remaining counts
Aug 16, 2020 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
@tanzinavega (1) Tanzina, itā€™s a hugely important issue, and I certainly canā€™t speak for other activists and civil rights organizers, but here are a few responses. Each of these shootings is heartbreaking. truly, and that canā€™t be lost in the broader public policy debate. @tanzinavega (2) One of the things we need is to better understand how crime is changing on the ground this year. Most of the data we have comes from police department themselves, giving departments tremendous power to shape the data that drives the public safety narrative.
Aug 1, 2020 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
(1) Hey @Brkfldproprtl, looks like you just installed a terrifying #biometric #surveillance system in my building without notice or consent.

First off, when you subject tenants to disturbingly invasive surveillance systems, you might want to, you know, ask if we agree. šŸ˜” (2) Next, the fact that I have absolutely no idea what the capabilities of the system are. Does this include #FacialRecognition? Clearly it has both computer vision and thermal imaging, but what else? One person in the lobby says it has mask detection AI, is that true?
Sep 24, 2019 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
(1) I'll be honest, I had reservations about #impeachment since the start. It's not popular to say on Twitter, but I worry about an electoral backlash when the #Senate likely acquits. But #Trump's #UkraineExtortion is just too much; it's my breaking point. nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/ā€¦ (2) Now we know that Trump personally ordered Mick Mulvaney to freeze $391 million in military aid to #Ukraine right before he pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky dig up dirt on the Bidens. This plot has all the criminal subtlety of a community theater production of Goodfellas
Aug 28, 2019 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 7 min read
(1) I wonder if American audiences fully grasp the enormity of what #BorisJohnson has done by asking the Queen to suspend #Parliament. This is way more extreme than if #Trump asked #MitchMcConnell to delay the Senate session to avoid an unpopular vote. cnn.com/europe/live-neā€¦ (2) To put this #ConstitutionalCrisis in perspective, you have to remember that the #UK's parliamentary supremacy vests far more power in their legislature than we've ever given to ours. Under the American system, the Constitution is supreme. Under the UK system, Parliament is.
Jun 7, 2019 ā€¢ 15 tweets ā€¢ 10 min read
(1) I finally got to watch #WhenTheySeeUs, but the news interrupted: a "#terror attack foiled in #TimesSquare." A disturbing headline, but if you look beneath the surface, a very different story emerges, along w/ disturbing parallels to the #CentralPark5 nytimes.com/2019/06/07/nyrā€¦ (2) The first thing that got my attention was prosecutorā€™s admission that ā€œdespite his intentions, he posed no immediate threat.ā€ A man wanted to attack Times Square, but there was no threat? That didnā€™t make sense. How could such a major attack not be a threat?